Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson (born 1962) is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow[1] at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR,[2] the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research[3] and a best-selling author of several books.[4] He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.[5]
Erik Brynjolfsson | |
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Brynjolfsson in 2013 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 60–61) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Productivity paradox The Long Tail Bundling of Information Goods Cyberbalkanization |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information Systems Economics Technological Change |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Notable students | Shuman Ghosemajumder Lorin Hitt Yu (Jeffrey) Hu Michael D. Smith Marshall Van Alstyne Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang |
Biography edit
Erik Brynjolfsson was born to Marguerite Reman Brynjolfsson and Ari Brynjolfsson, a nuclear physicist. He earned his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1984 and his S.M. in applied mathematics and decision sciences at Harvard University in 1984. He received a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics in 1991 from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[6]
Brynjolfsson served on the faculty of MIT from 1986 to 2020, where he was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy,[7] and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business.[8] Previously, he was at Harvard from 1985 to 1995 and Stanford from 1996 to 1998.[9] In 2001 he was appointed the Schussel Family Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[10] He lectures and consults worldwide, and serves on corporate boards. He taught the popular course 15.567, The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure, and Pricing, at MIT [11] and hosts a related blog, Economics of Information. In February 2020, Stanford announced that Brynjolfsson would join its faculty in July.[12]
His research has been recognized with nine "best paper" awards by fellow academics, including the John DC Little Award for the best paper in Marketing Science.[13] Brynjolfsson is the founder of two companies and has been awarded five U.S. patents. Along with Andrew McAfee, he was awarded the top prize in the Digital Thinkers category at the Thinkers 50 Gala on November 9, 2015.[14]
Brynjolfsson is of Icelandic descent.[15]
Work edit
Brynjolfsson is widely cited for studying the economics of information systems.[16] He was among the earlier researchers to measure productivity contributions of IT and the complementary role of organizational capital and other intangibles.[citation needed] Brynjolfsson has done research on digital commerce, the Long Tail , bundling and pricing models, intangible assets and the effects of IT on business strategy, productivity and performance.[17]
More recently, in his books The Second Machine Age and Race Against the Machine, Brynjolfsson and his co-author Andrew McAfee have argued that technology is racing ahead, and called for greater efforts to update our skills, organizations and institutions more rapidly.[18]
Information technology and productivity edit
Brynjolfsson wrote an influential review of the "IT Productivity Paradox" [19] and in separate research, documented a correlation between IT investment and productivity. His work provides evidence that the use of Information Technology is most likely to increase productivity when it is combined with complementary business processes and human capital.[20]
Measuring the Digital Economy edit
Working with Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers, and others, Brynjolfsson developed new methods for measuring the digital economy using "massive online choice experiments".[21] The insight from this work is that even when goods like Wikipedia or email have zero price, and therefore may have little or no direct contribution to GDP as it is conventionally measured, they may still contribute significantly to well-being and consumer surplus.[22] Brynjolfsson's method seeks to measure the consumer surplus from these goods and assess how it changes over time.
References edit
- ^ "Report of the Stanford University President". Stanford. December 9, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ "Erik Brynjolfsson to join Stanford faculty | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)". February 25, 2020.
- ^ "Erik Brynjolfsson, Research Associate as National Bureau of Economic Research". May 20, 2023.
- ^ "The Second Machine Age". May 20, 2023.
- ^ "Erik Brynjolfsson Joins Stanford Faculty". May 20, 2023.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
- ^ "MIT Sloan CIO Symposium: Erik Brynjolfsson". MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Erik Brynjolfsson March 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine February, 2010.
- ^ "The Economics of Information: Strategy, Structure and Pricing | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare". ocw.mit.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- ^ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305 (February 24, 2020). "Erik Brynjolfsson to Join Stanford Faculty". Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
- ^ "Erik Brynjolfsson". INFORMS. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- ^ "Thinkers 50". Thinkers 50. November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ "SÍMTALIÐ ... ER VIÐ ERIK BRYNJÓLFSSON Tölvuvæðing og framleiðni". www.mbl.is. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
- ^ "Google Scholars in Economics of Information systems". Google Scholar. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ "SIEPR Profile of Erik Brynjolfsson". Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ "Washington Post Review of The Second Machine Age". Washington Post. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ Productivity Paradox. OCLC 310949457. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Bresnahan, Timothy F.; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hitt, Lorin M. (February 2002). "IT and Workplace Organization". Quarterly Journal of Economics. 117 (1): 339–376. doi:10.1162/003355302753399526. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Eggers, Felix (2019). "Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-Being". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (15): 7250–7255. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.7250B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815663116. PMC 6462102. PMID 30914458.
- ^ Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash (2019). "How Should We Measure the Digital Economy?" (PDF). Harvard Business Review. 97 (6): 140–148.
External links edit
- Brynjolfsson's Web Site with links to research papers.
- The Stanford Digital Economy Lab.
- Economics of Information Blog
- Profile in , September 29, 2003. ("If e-business had an oracle, Erik Brynjolfsson would be the anointed.")
- Profile in Optimize, October, 2005. (Brynjolfsson ranked second in research study of "most influential academics of business technology")
- Profile in , January, 2006.
- CIO Insight[permanent dead link] Interview, "Expert Voice: Erik Brynjolfsson on Organizational Capital" October, 2001.
- Profile in Informationweek, April 17, 2000. ("When it comes to explaining the relationship between IT and worker productivity—bandwagon jumpers like Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan notwithstanding—the generally acknowledged expert in the field is Erik Brynjolfsson ...")
- Erik Brynjolfsson at TED
- TED Talk on the impact of technical change (TED2013)